I had a system crash the other day, (USB scanner locked up and unplugging it/re-plugging it killed FreeBSD 5.5)
Pan0.127 was open at the time. When I restarted everything, Pan had resorted to it's default settings for more or less everthing. Pane layout, no groups subscribed (not even the list of groups on the servers), profiles gone Bah! The news servers were still configured, as is my score file, but every other setting is lost, I think. Of course, I only found out *after* I restarted Pan so files probably got over-written. I shut Pan down and made a copy of ~/.pan2 No, I did not have a back up. TBH, nothing I read/post to usenet is valuable enough that I'm bothered that it's gone. Most of the groups I read are from my ISPs news server and of the two they have, I use the text-only one which has a retention period measured in months, over a year for the ISP internal groups, so that's not an issue. What I would like to recover, if possible, is the profiles I set up. So, two questions. 1) is it likely there's copies of any of pans config files elsewhere? eg pan makes backups of changed files. 2) is this a situation pan should be able to cope with or is it simply that the files were left open and got trashed by fsck/buffers not being flushed? -- Dave _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
